Police: Retired NYPD officer drugged, raped woman

DAILY NEWS | NY Crime ^ | January 13th 2009 | SIMONE WEICHSELBAUM

[LuxMaker]

A retired NYPD officer raped a woman after drugging her at a Bronx bar and hauling her to a motel in Westchester, police said.

Greenburgh detectives charged ex-cop Jose Arroyo, 46, with the November rape and kidnapping of the 31-year-old woman.

Arroyo, who left the force in 2005, slipped a drug in the woman's drink while they chatted at Doyle's Pub in Throggs Neck, police said.
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[Sherman Logan]

That's the stupidest statement I have ever read on FR.

This is a heavily contested category, but I must agree the comment in question is a serious contender.

In (very) partial defense of exist, there are bars and bars. A woman alone at some bars is probably indeed there to get laid. But even in such a case this is not even close to being a valid defense for assault and rape.

Sometimes you wish the jury had the option to vote to form a firing squad.

[shaft29]

Is that you Bobby Knight?

[DCPatriot]

Are you a blooming idiot?

Or do you just play one on FreeRepublic?

[Red in Blue PA]

You should ask the mods to delete your post.

Stupid doesn’t begin to describe it.

[seemoAR]

I Read the comments in the newspaper article this came from. A lot of NY people seem to be very dissatisfied with the NYPD. ;0)

[Texas_shutterbug]

"I guess in court, her willingness would have to be determined by things like what kind of clothes she wore. Perhaps her sexual history might be relevant, as well. "

WRONG. I don't care if she's a stripper working a pole. Rape is rape is rape.

[Texas_shutterbug]

"If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?” the sheik said in his sermon. “The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.” WE ARE NOT ANIMALS.

It is HIS FAULT. ONE HUNDRED PERCENT.

[trisham]

That is one of the sickest posts I’ve ever seen.

[thefactor]

yeah, you're right. no one accused of a crime should have the right to a vigorous defense.

i know it's early but i think you win dumbest post of the day. it's between you and post #2.

[thefactor]

or maybe just the people who care enough to comment on an article. not exactly a scientific observation. you basing your silly statement on any other “facts”?

[seemoAR]

Get real.

[thefactor]

wow, great one. i have actual proof your original statement is moronic. but you don't want to be bothered with that. in truth, 90% of NYC citizens who file police reports are satisfied with the police.

the only ones who do not like the nypd are the ones who get locked up by them. stop believing the vocal minority. use your own head.

[editor-surveyor]

She may well have been planning to go somewhere with somebody, but the rest is in your twisted self projection.

[editor-surveyor]

“If I were not a pastor, I would say — suffer a little bit.”

I can't imagine what he could be a 'Pastor' of.

[editor-surveyor]

I have to go with Impy.

Yes he should be defended, but at his own expense, and other officers should not have to stand with him. - Police unions are oxymoronic.

[thefactor]

we turn our backs on our own when they have been convicted. not before.

[editor-surveyor]

If that crud is “your own,” I don’t know what you’re doing here.

[thefactor]

huh. i thought this republic was founded on innocence, then proven guilt. you sound like the opposite which would make YOU the outcast around here.

[Xenophon450]

Relax, I was simply making the point that he sounded much akin to a Islamic Imam.

[monday]

“But a 31 year old woman at a bar surely was planning to go home with somebody.”

How the hell would you know that? You think every woman at a bar is only there because she wants to have sex with random strangers? That is the dumbest, not to mention most sexist remark I have heard in a long time. I don't know if you are male or female, but either way, it's stupid for you to presume you know every ones motives when obviously you haven't a clue.